Blog-Love Friday #9

Once again it is Blog-Love Friday. Hope you will enjoy these wonderful blogs that I have picked to be featured. Go check them out and enjoy all that crafty goodness. And please leave them a nice comment, that you have visited. They will love you for it.


1. Pitter and Glink

This is one very crafty Lady. From Jewelry making to other crafts for around the house.

2. Happy in Red

This blog is written in Dutch and English.

3. Arctic Strawberries

You need to go look at all those pretty pillows.

Wonderful collection.

And now I wish you all a wonderful weekend

and I hope to see you all again soon.

Until soon from my neck of the woods..........

52 Week Crochet Challenge Week #11

What kind of crocheter are you? Do you like to follow a pattern exactly as it is written? Do you like to "wing it" and make things up as you go? Are you a little of both?

Interesting Question and until now I have never thought about it much. To answer this, I got to say, it depends. There are patterns where it is best to follow them to the "T" or the whole things comes out wrong. And then there are patterns I do make changes to as I go along. So I guess my answer would have to be "a little of both". I must also say, that sometimes when you make changes, the project or craft becomes your own.



And now on to other things. I actually crocheted something other than "Mandela's". Can you believe it? The addict is taking a break and moved on to something else. But I don't think it will be for good, because I still have Mandelitis in my blood. I also want to make a Mandela to add to Lucy's (Attic 24) Yarndale project. Have you seen hers yet? If not, you need to go and take a look.

This first project I made, is a child's summer hat. It's crocheted in cotton yarn, color pink, with white trim. I haven't crocheted anything for a child in a long time and when I saw this little hat, I knew I just had to make one. I think it is so stinking cute. What you all think? The pattern I found here

Wish I could have been able to show it off on a child's pretty locks,

but there wasn't one around.

The second thing I made is a scrubby for the shower. It is also made out of cotton that I had left from another project. It took me quite some time to make it. It started out simple enough, but by the last row my fingers were hurting as the piece started winding pretty tide together. Can you believe it took a whole skein to make this? Wow is what I thought. But I do like it and I think it will be very durable.

Last I would like to show of this beautiful Amarillo that is brightening up my house.

It isn't fully open, but will be soon. Just love it's red color.

So this is it from my neck of the woods for today.

Here is hoping your day is bright and full of sunshine.

Link-Yourself Monday #27 & a little Give-away

Happy Monday my Bloggie Friends!

Hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day.

Happy you are stopping by. We are once again having Link-Yourself Monday and we are looking forward to what you have to share with us today.

Here are our top three links for the past week. Thanks for sharing your lovely creations with us.

1. Janie Hobby Corner

2. Lunamon Design

3. Crafty Cucumber

And now to our little Give-away:

Over the last few days I did a yarn inventory,

which I will talk about in a follow up post.

What I found is that I had yarn, that I personally can't use,

since I am allergic to that type yarn.

So with that said,

I decided I would like to share it with one of you.

The only rule here is,

that you please leave a comment at the end

and let me know that you would like to participate.

The Give-away will end Sunday, the 18th, 2014.

So hope you come and join for chance.

The yarn is Patons SWS.

It is not brown, like it looks on the picture, but green (natural moss)

It's a soy wool blend.

You will get 5 (80g) skeins of it.

And now it's time for the Link-up.....

Go for it....

Erika's Crafts Corner Monday Link-Yourself Guidelines:

1. Add links for up to three of your blogposts using the Link-Yourself button below.

2. Please leave a comment on the blogs of the other participants. We all Love comments and know that         others appreciate what we make. Also please tell others you are linking up.

3. Please share this post through Google+, Pinterest or Facebook. That creates more exposure for everybody joining our link-up.

An InLinkz Link-up